Quotations From T.S. (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT

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• 1.

  It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

  T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American poet, critic. New York Post (Sept. 22, 1963).
  
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• 2.

  For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

  T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), U.S.-born—British poet, critic. "East Coker."
• 3.

  These fragments I have shored against my ruins.

  T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American poet, critic. The Waste Land, pt. 5: "What the Thunder Said," (1922).
• 4.

  I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

  T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American poet, critic. The Waste Land, pt. 1, "The Burial of the Dead," (1922).
  
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• 5.

  The dreamcrossed twilight between birth and dying.

  T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American poet, critic. "Ash-Wednesday," pt. 6 (1930).
  
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• 6.

  It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

  T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American poet, critic. Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series, ed. George Plimpton (1963).
• 7.

  Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

  T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), U.S.-British modernist poet. Eliot's doctoral dissertation in philosophy; submitted to Harvard in 1916. Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley, ch. 7, Columbia University Press (1964).
• 8.

  The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

  T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), U.S.-British modernist poet. Eliot's doctoral dissertation in philosophy; submitted to Harvard in 1916. Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley, ch. 6, Columbia University Press (1964).
• 9.

  There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

  T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), U.S.-British modernist poet. Eliot's doctoral dissertation in philosophy; submitted to Harvard in 1916. Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley, ch. 1, Columbia University Press (1964).
• 10.

  Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

  T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American poet, critic. The Sacred Wood, "Philip Massinger," (1920).